Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Missionary for the Modern
by Marquis, Alice Goldfarb
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0809244047
- ISBN 13
- 9780809244041
- Seller
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Santa Barbara, California, United States
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About This Item
Chicago and New York: Contemporary Books, Inc., 1989. xi, 431 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations, portraits; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. Browning. Dust jacket, price-clipped on the front flap, protected in a mylar cover. An interesting, if rather unbalanced, biography of MoMA's founding director, Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Emphasis on Barr's religious (Protestant) upbringing and his "missionary" proselytzing for modern art.. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo.
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- Bookseller
- LEFT COAST BOOKS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 117302
- Title
- Alfred H. Barr, Jr.: Missionary for the Modern
- Author
- Marquis, Alice Goldfarb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN 10
- 0809244047
- ISBN 13
- 9780809244041
- Publisher
- Contemporary Books, Inc.
- Place of Publication
- Chicago and New York
- Date Published
- 1989
- Size
- 8vo
- Bookseller catalogs
- Museums; American / 5. Modern, 1900-1945; American / 6. Late Modern, 1945-1999;
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